Displaced Beachbums

When FM and I got married, we agreed to celebrate Christmas in our own home rather than travel during the holidays. It’s worked well for our family especially once FG arrived. She loves celebrating Christmas in her own home and we have many traditions. So many traditions that I’m having trouble keeping up with all of them. One of our Christmas traditions is my mom, Grandma Betty to FG, would come to our home and celebrate the holidays with us. My mom would travel to Germany, enduring the long flight and the cold, snowy weather to spend Christmas with us. Unfortunately, she won’t be coming this Christmas ~ at first it was because my in-laws will be visiting for Christmas and our house is too small for multiple visitors but now, my mom thinks the almost 24 hour flight time would be too much for her. As you can imagine, FG is very sad about this and continues to ask “When is Grandma Betty coming?”

We’ll have to start a new tradition where we visit Grandma Betty during a holiday so FG can have a new tradition ~ maybe the 4th of July!